James Marsters, who has voiced Zamasu in the franchise starting with the English dub of "Dragon Ball Super", previously played Piccolo in the infamous 2009 live action film "Dragonball Evolution". Marsters since expressed regret over his performance in the film, and stated he took on the role of Zamasu in an effort to "redeem himself with the Dragon Ball Z community". As a reference to this, at one point when using Fused Zamasu's Divine Hammer rush attack in Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero, he quotes one of Piccolo's lines in the movie: "Human power has failed before, as it will AGAIN!".

This is the first game in the Dragon Ball: Budokai Tenkaichi series to be released under its original Japanese name (Dragon Ball: Sparking!) in the overseas version of the game.